Flight Management at American became a collection of guys that had flown the F4 in Vietnam. The F4 was the best fighter in the world at that time and only the best were selected to fly it. Being a F4 pilot in the 60s and 70s was worthy of praise. But that had been 20 to 30 years ago. They were living on their past laurels and not abiding by the most basic rule of flying -Fly the Airplane you are in. The F4 was a flying brick its most powerful control it's rudder. You could kick rudder in an F4 but an airliner is not a fighter and must be treated differently. They were warned repeatedly that teaching this heavy use of rudder could bring down a plane and yet they persisted. Those of you still in aviation can not allow this sort arrogance.